Administrative Heads of Barnard College, 1889 – 2019 | |||||||||||||||||
# | First Name | Last Name | Title | Year Began | Year Ended | Age at App’t | Tenure | Reason | Birthplace | Religion | Race | AB Source | Grad. Degree | G/Degree Source | Previous Position | Previous Locale | |
1 | Emma | Weed | Admin. Chair | 1889 | 1894 | 5 Years | Died | Upstate NY | Protestant | White | Vassar | None | None | School head | NYC | ||
2 | Emily | James | Smith | Dean | 1894 | 1900 | 6 Years | Resigned/Personal | Upstate NY | Protestant | White | Bryn Mawr | PhD | Chicago | Teacher | NYC | |
3 | Laura | Drake | Gill | Dean | 1901 | 1908 | 7 Years | Resigned/Personal | Maine | Protestant | White | Smith | None | None | Hospital Admin. | Cuba | |
4 | Virginia | Crocheron | Gildersleeve | Dean | 1911 | 1946 | 36 Years | Retired | NYC | Protestant | White | Barnard | PhD | Columbia | Teacher | NYC | |
5 | Millicent | Cary | McIntosh | Dean/President | 1947 | 1962 | 15 Years | Retired | Baltimore | Protestant | White | Bryn Mawr | PhD | Hopkins | School head | NYC | |
6 | Rosemary | Park | President | 1962 | 1966 | 4 Years | Resigned/Personal | Boston | Protestant | White | Radcliffe | Collge president | Connecticut | ||||
7 | Martha | Peterson | President | 1967 | 1975 | 8 Years | Resigned | Kansas | Protestant | White | U. Kansas | PhD | University Kansas | Univ. administration | Wisconsin | ||
8 | Jacqueyn | Anderson | Mattfeld | President | 1976 | 1980 | 4 Years | Terminated | Baltimore | Protestant | White | Goucher | PhD | Yale | Univ. administration | Rhode Island | |
9 | Ellen | Victoria | Futter | President | 1980 | 1993 | 14 Years | Resigned/Career Move | NYC | Jewish | White | Barnard | JD | Columbia | Attorney | NYC | |
10 | Judith | Shapiro | President | 1994 | 2008 | 15 Years | Retired | NYC | Jewish | White | Brandeis | PhD | Columbia | College administration | Pennsylvania | ||
11 | Debra | Spar | President | 2008 | 2017 | 45 | 8+ Years | Resigned/Career Move | NYC | Jewish | White | Georgetown | PhD | Harvard | Prof. Schl. Administration | Cambridge, Mass. | |
12 | Sian | Leah | Beilock | President | 2017 | NYC | Jewish | White | Ucal S/Barbara | PhD | Mich. State | Univ. administration | Chicago | ||||
James | Harvey | Robinson | Acting Dean | 1900 | 1901 | Returned to faculty | |||||||||||
William | Tenney | Brewster | Acting Dean | 1907 | 1911 | Returned to faculty | |||||||||||
George | W. | Mullins | Acting Dean | 1930 | 1932 | 2 years | Returned to faculty |